This is a genuine, and maybe silly, question to yáll spreadsheet warriors out there! Can you please help me understand how the “old” diverse damage affixes correlate to the “new” aggregate damage affixes?
Case #1:
I have a legacy sorcerer staff with:
- +63% Ultimate damage
- +58.5% Mastery damage
- +36% damage to burning enemies
And i have a “new” staff with
- +63.8% damage
Does this mean that this single affix on the new item is better than three old ones alltogether (because it’s “+ to all damage”)?
Case #2:
I have a legacy sorcerer amulet with
- +42% to Conjuration damage
- +3 to Conjuration skills (roughly equivalent to +15-20% Conjuration damage)
- +3 to Mastery skills (roughly equivalent to +15-20% Mastery damage)
- +3 to Devouring Blaze (passive that essentially increases CS damage against burning enemies by 42% on the level i have it)
Does that mean that a new amulet with like
- +24% Damage
- +88% Damage to distant enemes
will be actually better than all of those legacy affixes combined? I tried to test these amulets on dummies, but i don’t understand the numbers i’m seeing as the new item actually fares worse than the legacy one while it should perform way better on paper. I mean “damage to distant enemies” is equivalent to “all damage” for an RDD class, right, and i don’t see this supposed almost 100% damage increase even remotely, i see less damage for both Mastery and Conjuration skills.
Many thanks in advance for clarifying my concerns!